Platform Engineer – Octave: Data and Advanced Analytics Centre of Excellence

Responsibilities

▪ Act as primary point of contact responsible for overall health, performance and reliability of platforms and applications

▪ Develop tools to improve ability to deploy and effectively monitor applications/processes in a large-scale Azure cloud environments

▪ Ensure platforms are well architected to meet operational availability and cost optimization requirements

▪ Configure and maintain central monitoring platforms to perform daily health checks and provide support on monitoring platforms

▪ Manage new technology integrations into monitoring systems

▪ Provide event logging and historical repositories to aid in the investigation and prevention of incidents, problems and service quality issues

▪ Build automation scripts and tools for development teams to provision/decommission in a self-service manner

Qualifications 

▪ Work experience: ~4+ years in building infrastructure automation and maintaining cloud based data platforms maintaining cloud based data platforms

▪ Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Skills & Competencies required

– Experience in managing high availability workloads and applications – Proficiency in programming languages (i.e. Python etc.)

– Knowledge of data structures, databases, networking, Azure cloud architecture, distributed application architectures, and web-scale technologies and related topics

– Good knowledge on infrastructure protocols to gather element-level event data, Infrastructure as code (IaC) to automate resource provisioning/decommissioning

– Proficient with data lifecycles and aggregation, reporting and web dashboards

– Influential, focused and versatile team player with proven ability to function under pressure